Old Master Drawings

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Lot 85
  • 85

School of Michelangelo

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • a group of eight studies of legs and one of an arm, by different hands
  • Four red chalk, three black chalk, one pen and brown ink, one black chalk on blue paper;
    one bears old attribution on the verso: m buonarotti 

Provenance

Martelli Collection, Florence (bears their numbering: 13, 56, 16, 54, 10, 18, 64, 20, 67);
William Young Ottley (eight bear his initials and numbering L.2665);
Thomas Banks (all bear his mark L.2423);
H. Baron de Triqueti (one bears his mark L.1304);
E. Calando (five bear his mark L.837);
E. Calando fils, (bears his inventory number: 2135; as Andrea del Sarto)

Condition

Overall good. One laid down. All hinged on new mount. Two have bits of drawings on the verso. Several have small areas of loss.
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Catalogue Note

See note to the previous lot for a discussion of the Martelli numbers and Ottley provenance.  Here the presence of Ottley's own mark adds interest, as does that of Thomas Banks, whose drawings passed to his daughter and then to her two sons-in-law, one of whom was Baron Triqueti.
These drawings are by several hands but all appear to be by artists working in the circle of Michelangelo and may be related to figures in the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel.